Managers’ external social ties at work: Blessing or curse for the firm?
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- Leif Brandes & Marc Brechot & Egon Franck, 2014. "Managers’ External Social Ties at Work: Blessing or Curse for the Firm?," Working Papers 345, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW).
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Keywords
Social relationships; Social capital; Principal–agent relationship; Worker allocation; Basketball;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- M51 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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